“That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like some slumberers in their beds; the ever rolling waves but made so by the restlessness.” 

― Herman Melville Moby Dick, or The Whale

millions of mixed shades and shadows

91st Community Garden Rockaway Beach, New York

May 2024

a double collage dye bonded on aluminum using the background of photographs cut from the textbook, Discovering Black America, as the background, and Selfies taken to record the metadata of her surfing journey and water adjacency (in deference to Yemaya the Yoruban Mother of the Earth whose water broke when giving birth to her and formed all the oceans, rivers and lakes).